Re: DE features dependent on Systemd
On Wed, 2014-12-03 at 16:55 +0000, Simon McVittie wrote:
> On 03/12/14 14:46, Svante Signell wrote:
> > On Wed, 2014-12-03 at 14:25 +0100, Vincent Bernat wrote:
> >> The problem with those groups is that they are not fine grained
> >> enough.
> >
> > If more granularity is needed, what's hindering introduction of even
> > more groups: like an image group and splitting the fb0 to more devices?
> > Or even subdirectories like /dev/snd/* for audio etc.
>
> This does not actually solve the same problem as logind's "uaccess", or
> ConsoleKit's "udev ACL" (which was an older version of the same general
> idea): it just splits it up into a larger number of orthogonal instances
> of the same problem, which is that group membership makes a poor
> encoding for temporary permissions.
Have you ever heard about openafs?
Additionally, I seriously think that much can be done by following the
ancient Unix utmp/wtmp track, e.g. as a start checking and limiting who
is allowed to write to that file. Yes, I've read the manpage. Anyway, it
was developed for a reason, right?
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